// Dwarf Recycling Center //

[NukeMarine]

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~~~Dwarf Recycling Center~~~

 

 

 

Another Keldagrim mini-game. Players with 60+ smithing (lower level smithers may pay to use) can help run the Dwarf Recycling center. Using weapon and armors on this machine can retrieve usable material to forge new bars. The efficiancy of this machine is so high, you can retrieve 60% of the bars used to constuct the armor or weapons you're recycling.

 

 

 

Example: Use 5 adamant platemail on the machine and your character can retrieve 15 adamant bars.

 

 

 

Skill gains: You get the forging experience you'd get for per each bar you recycle.

 

 

 

Side benefit: reduces use of high alchemy.

 

 

 

Limits: You may only recycle material you are actually able to make (no recycling rune plates if you're only 75 smithing).

 

 

 

Theories:

 

 

 

Have a "bar runner" dwarf that'll bank your bars you've recycled to your bank for a fee. This allows players to stock up many platemail and shields and legs in their bank to "recycle" later. As 25 legs create 45 bars, this would save a bank trip to bank the bars. Additionally, a bank could be located near the recycling center to speed up skill leveling.

 

 

 

Benefits to High Levelers:

 

 

 

Smithing 100 Adamant Platemail gives 33k xp and takes about 20 minutes (100k xp an hour average). These would normally be alc'd for 768k gp, but instead they can be recycled for 300 adamant bars (and 12k xp from operating the recycler). Player then uses 300 bars to make 60 Adamant Platemail, etc. Recycling the adamant platemail in theory creates 250 bars per 100 addy ore and 600 coal (300 using the blast furnace).

 

 

 

This encourages smithing armor and weapons, saving armor and weapons, BUYING armor and weapons from F2P smithers. Such a mini-game will truly boost the smithing skill in the member community and f2p. Mining as always will be the bottleneck. However, minor weapons and armor like medium helms, shortswords and knives (especially rune) can now be recycled to create much better items. 10 Rune knives (alc's for 50k total) can be recycled in 6 runite bars that makes 3 rune kites for 64k alchemy.

 

 

 

As always, the 60% retrieval can be tweaked by Jagex for balancing purposes. In addition, Coal can be used to increase the cost for further balancing.

 

 

 

How Mini-game could work:

 

 

 

~~NPC's~~

 

 

 

Supervisor - explains the game

 

Runner - can be paid to take your bars to your bank.

 

Coal Supply Clerk - will unnote coal for you at a cost of 20 gp per noted coal

 

Armor/Weapons Supply Clerk - will unnote armor and weapons at 10% low alchemy cost of item per note.

 

 

 

~~Areas of Recycler~~

 

 

 

Chute - Player deposits armor and weapons here

 

Bike - Moves deposits to crusher

 

Crusher - Reduces deposits to little smeltable bits

 

Coal Furnace - Player deposits coal here to heat the smelter, upto 255 coal may be stored here.

 

Bar Deposit - Metal is spewed out here into molten bars. Use buckets of water to cool it down.

 

 

 

Player places item in shoot (upto a certain amount that creates 28 bars), peddles past crushers (possible two man job, peddler and crusher), metal chunks then are placed in the smelter. Another variant can keep it a solo effort. In addition, coal can be used for the smelter based upon what bars are being created (similar to blast furnace).

[game_proffy]

A truly wonderful idea!

 

 

 

Smithing has always been one of my least favorite skills, and I only level is for quests (Devious Minds will be completed with evil stew, as I can't bear leveling to 65!)

 

 

 

But this one will give a boost to the whole smithing process!

 

 

 

Collecting mithril, steel and iron drops will actually be worth it.

 

 

 

However: 1 thing - what about black items?

[Apollo]

Like It but I don't know what is it?

[Shinji]

I like the Idea! Combined with the Blast Furnae! Its a Very Efficient Way of Smithing!

[Dark_Lord552]

nice! but the smithing lvl requirement should be higher that way people can actually train their smithing the good old ways

[foofoomagoo]

i love the idea it sounds awesome becus i ahve lots of armour that i wish was bars again sweet idea

[deciever2]

Considering the cost of leveling smithing if you are too impatient to maine your own ore. This is a great idea, i would use it for sure.

[Jack12338]

It'd be pretty awesome, but wouldn't it render actually taking the time to make your own bars obselete?

 

 

 

It's pretty cool, but maybe lower it to 30-50 percent or so.

 

I dunno, I'm crazy.

[yeah_you_are]

I like the idea because i could make the junky armour drops i normally get and finally have a use for them. I support :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[NukeMarine]

Sadly, my thread on this was locked on the Suggestions forum, but I resubmitted it after a customer service request.

 

 

 

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Tott Paula

 

Forum Mod

 

 

 

 

 

10-Oct-2006 00:32:35

 

Thank you for your suggestion, however this idea has been suggested many times before. There is a list of the most suggested ideas in the Forum Specific Rules sticky, at the top of this page. If you have another idea that is not on that list, please feel free to post it here.

 

 

 

Tott Paula

 

Forum Mod

 

 

 

 

 

10-Oct-2006 01:02:55

 

Only the "most" suggested topics are on that list, but I have personally witnessed many suggestions of re-using, melting down, or re-smithing armour.

 

 

 

Jagex already has input on this suggestion. Thanks.

 

 

 

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Customer service said posts not in the sticky or against the rules are ok, so I reposted it.

[Dracion1]

What if i used a mithril short sword with the machine? Would i get 60% of a bar?

[Fadfdfd]

I like this idea, but I'm F2P :(

[NukeMarine]

Well, if you're f2p perhaps it can still help you. Players would be wanting armor and weapons to recycle and f2p offers enourmous amounts yes?

[kaese1]

i would say thats to easy to lvl smithing :? but still good idea

[happybappy]

great Idea!!

 

You should also be able to :twisted: recycle actual dwarves :twisted:

[NukeMarine]

What if i used a mithril short sword with the machine? Would i get 60% of a bar?

 

 

 

I assume it would work like this: Items placed in the DRC will have a "count" attached to them. A mith short sword will have .6 count while a mith plate will have 3.0 so that putting them into the DRC increases the bar count. Once the bar count hits 28, you cannot put any more items in until the bars are smelted. A similar rule occurs already at the Dwarf Blast Furnace.

[falconerd]

Awesome idea, that would help smithing, and even though I'm lvl 70 smithing, it has taken a dang long time to get that high.

 

Maybe it should be like smelting iron is, %50 chance of success kind of thing.

[NukeMarine]

Nah, as you're still using coal to "smelt" the metal back into bars you should have the 100% chance that other metals give you.

[NukeMarine]

This is still a viable suggestion, so I'm bumping it.

[arrowbld]

sounds good this will help everyone and be awesome

[Slayr]

This would help everyone, great idea!

[Dracomancer]

So...two questions.

 

 

 

1. If you have something where 60% of it is less than a whole number, will it be rounded up?

 

 

 

2. What if you tried to recycle something that used something other than metal (e.g. spears/hastae)?

[runescapeloser22]

If nobody uses the Blast Furnace why would they add something else similar?

[Georgelemmons]

pretty nice idea! i still don't think this will render mining obselete, it will just give another option to combat-loving smithers. =D>

[DarkVincent]

I thought this was a suggestion for recycling dwarves :XD: .

 

 

 

I find it quite a good idea, however I think it'd ruin the point of mining and smelting, but I want to see what happens. Semi-Support.